# 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 / Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — 第三十六条の二 (Article 36-2) - Law: 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 (Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities), 昭和三十五年法律第百二十三号 - English title "Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第三十六条の二 (Article 36-2)（雇用の分野における障害者と障害者でない者との均等な機会の確保等を図るための措置） — address `art-36-2` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-36-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-36-2 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三十六条の二（雇用の分野における障害者と障害者でない者との均等な機会の確保等を図るための措置） — (Measures to Ensure Equal Opportunities in Employment for Persons With and Without Disabilities) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-36-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-36-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-36-2 **第一項** 事業主は、労働者の募集及び採用について、障害者と障害者でない者との均等な機会の確保の支障となつている事情を改善するため、労働者の募集及び採用に当たり障害者からの申出により当該障害者の障害の特性に配慮した必要な措置を講じなければならない。ただし、事業主に対して過重な負担を及ぼすこととなるときは、この限りでない。 art-36-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-36-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-36-2/par-1 At the request of a person with a disability, an employer must take necessary measures that reflect consideration for the characteristics of that person's impairment in their recruitment and hiring of workers, in order to correct circumstances that are an obstacle to ensuring equal opportunities for persons with and without disabilities in their recruitment and hiring of workers; provided, however, that this does not apply if those measures would place an excessive burden on the employer. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第三十六条の四第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-36-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-36-4/par-1 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第三十六条の五第一項（雇用の分野における障害者と障害者でない者との均等な機会の確保等に関する指針） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-36-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-36-5/par-1 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第三十六条の六第一項（助言、指導及び勧告） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-36-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-36-6/par-1 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第七十四条の五第一項（紛争の解決の促進に関する特例） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-74-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-74-5/par-1 - 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 第八十五条の三第一項（適用除外） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employment-of-persons-with-disabilities-act/art-85-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/335AC0000000123/art-85-3/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000123/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-18 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3845/tb), retrieved 2026-10-18 - This site's parser, version 209 — 障害者の雇用の促進等に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-18